RACKABEAT & BAR-LOW: Step Out/ Air Tight (2013)

Hey everybody, let’s pull the lever on the Riddim Fruit machine and see what turns up for the start of 2014. Here we go – all the reels are spinning – hey – hold on a second – looks like someone’s been having a tinker with the workings – only two tracks have turned up instead of the normal four! There’s a punchy, paranoid bass-heavy bunch of cherries augmented with a little bit of Biggie 101 called Step Out and funky, glitchy lil peach called Air Tight. Oh …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

VARIOUS: Cloud Watching Volume 2 (Riddim Fruit) (2013) Free download

Cloud watching. Lie on your back and make two collide. Disperse one with your mind. Find ones that look like animals. Fucking hippies! They’re everywhere and now they’ve invaded the Riddim Fruit label a second time and forced ten artists on its roster to make ‘upbeat downtempo’ breaks. It’s outrageous. All that lying about in peaceful harmony, smoking dope and being nice to each other and not washing. Actually, it doesn’t sound too bad, apart from the not washing bit. I can …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE ALLERGIES: The Pick Up Line (2012) Free download

Some blogs relentlessly patrol soundcloud posting up dope shit the instant it comes out right at the bleeding edge of cool like some kind of internet special forces squad. Others’ approach posting like a man after a three day vodka binge – fumbling around all bleary-eyed, scratching facial stubble while stumbling over underpants which they might have been pulling up or, equally likely, taking down. If only they could remember. Never one to be pigeonholed, the monkey likes to vacillate …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE ALLERGIES: Pete Rock & CL Smooth ‘T.R.O.Y.’ (The Allergies revisit) (2012) Free download

THE ALLERGIES: Pete Rock & CL Smooth ‘T.R.O.Y.’ (The Allergies revisit) (2012) Free download
The Allergies is the new dj/ production project from Bristol DJs Moneyshot and Rackabeat and they’re on a mission to, “bring that vintage sound of sampled funk, psych, hip-hop and rock back to the forefront of club music…[and]…breathe new life into the finest dusty old records.” They must have been reminisicing over how it was back in the day or something. Coincidentally, by way of promoting themselves they’re offering up a free download of …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RACKABEAT & BAR-LOW: The Rack & Low Show podcast (2011)

RACKABEAT & BAR-LOW: The Rack & Low Show podcast (2011)
This is only the third podcast inside a month that I’m posting about since I said I didn’t normally post about podcasts – which all goes to show how much of a handle I’ve got on what I do. Anyway, here we are and here’s Rack & Low a.k.a. Rackabeat and Bar-low, two dj/ producers from Bristol whose track Get Down is due out on the Riddim Fruit label. Until that happens - check out their Rack & Low Show podcast - the purpose of which…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM